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Milking the Southern California entertainment racket for every dollar it eagerly offers to him, Martin quickly has come to bask in the pecuniary reflections of his egomania--recently bolstered by the sales of Cruel Shoes (by the Writer), Comedy is Not Pretty (by Martin the Record Maker) and now The Jerk (by Martin the Actor and Screenwriter...
...approved insecticides; the Impact School Aid plan, which makes grants to some of the nation's wealthiest school districts; and child nutrition programs that benefit upper-and middle-income families. But all these proposed $9.7 billion budget reductions are not likely to pass Congress. Says one senior budget maker: "The chances of getting rid of that money for beekeepers are zero, but this is exactly the kind of thing we must get rid of to pare down the budget...
Using RCA SelectaVision technology under a license, CBS will manufacture discs to be played on RCA machines. This will give CBS, the nation's largest record maker, entry into the business. RCA will win not only royalty fees but also the support of CBS, which spent months looking at the systems of both videodisc competitors. Now CBS's library of programs will be available to owners of RCA machines...
MARRIED. Margaux Hemingway, 24, occasional actress; and French-born Film Maker Bernardo Foucher, 40; she for the second time, he for the fourth; in Margaux's native Ketchum, Idaho...
Valium's maker was founded in 1896 by Fritz Hoffmann, a Basel marketing whiz whose first commercial success was a cough syrup. Though the firm became the first to synthesize vitamins, among other feats, it was the development of Valium and Librium in the early 1960s that made it a leading pharmaceutical company. While the secretive Roche has 122 facilities around the world, it did not publish its first consolidated account until 1974. The firm is publicly owned, but its chief stockholders are mostly wealthy descendants of the founders or early executives who rarely trade their gilt-edged shares...